lycopods

In these mid-altitude cloud forests above 1,200 m there are abundant lianas, epiphytes, ferns lycopods, lichens, fungi and mosses.

Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

There were tall grasses, ferns, lycopods, besides sigillaria, asterophyllites, now scarce plants, but then the species might be counted by thousands.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

And then when the liana ran down again to the ground the difficulty of picking it out under the mass of lycopods, large-leaved heliconias, rosy-tasseled calliandras, rhipsalas encircling it like the thread on an electric reel, between the knots of the large white ipomas, under the fleshy stems of the vanilla, and in the midst of the shoots and branchlets of the grenadilla and the vine.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

The interest of these corpuscles, it may be added, lies in the proof of affinity they offer between Conifers and the higher Cryptogams, such as ferns and lycopods -- an affinity shown also in the peculiar venation of the Gingkgo.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various

This is precisely analogous to the case of gymnosperms, lycopods, etc., where on leaf structures are formed macro and micro sporangia.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various

Many of them became marshes, crowded with a most luxuriant cryptogamic vegetation, specially of lycopods and ferns, while the dry grounds waved green with coniferous trees.

Geographical Evolution 1909

The Carboniferous was the age of lycopods and amphibians, as the

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

It is important to note that some of these gigantic lycopods, which are classed with the CRYPTOGAMS, or flowerless plants, had pith and medullary rays dividing their cylinders into woody wedges.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

There were also vast monotonous forests, composed chiefly of trees belonging to the lycopods, and whose nearest relatives to-day are the little club mosses of our eastern woods.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

Two families of lycopods deserve special mention, -- the Lepidodendrons and the

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900